SAUDI ARABIA: SUDANESE PRIME MINISTER HAS TALKS WITH KING FAISAL ON YEMENI PROBLEM

Record ID: 189683

  • Title: SAUDI ARABIA: SUDANESE PRIME MINISTER HAS TALKS WITH KING FAISAL ON YEMENI PROBLEM
  • Date: 22nd August 1967
  • Summary: MR. MAHGOUB BEING RECEIVED BY KING FAISAL. Initials RM/VS/JH/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th September 1967 13:00
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  • Location: JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA
  • Country: Saudi Arabia
  • Reuters ID: LVACLCMTQRWHIUEYP6KFMVJ1WR7C
  • Story Text: THE SUDANESE PRIME MINISTER, MR MOHAMMED AHMED MAHGOUB, HAS BEEN HAVING TALKS IN JEDDAH WITH KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA AIMED AT SECURING A LASTING SETTLEMENT OF THE YEMEN PROBLEM. MR MAHGOUB, WHO HAS GIVEN NO DETAILS OF HIS MEDIATION PLAN, WILL HAVE SIMILAR DISCUSSION LATER IN CAIRO WITH PRESIDENT NASSER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC.

    MR. MAHGOUB, WHO IS ALSO THE SUDAN'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, HAS EXPRESSED HIS DETERMINATION TO DO ALL HE CAN TO END THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD YEMEN WAR, IN WHICH EGYPTIAN-BACKED REPUBLICAN FORCES ARE FIGHTING ROYALISTS SUPPORTED BY SAUDI ARABIA. HOWEVER, BOTH THE REPUBLICAN AND ROYALISTS IN THE YEMENI HAVE REJECTED THE 1965 JEDDAH AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EGYPTIANS AND SAUDI ARABIANS TO END THE WAR.
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